In the year ending in September 2018, Amazon did $220.957 billion in sales, a nearly 38-percent increase from the year before.

Yearly intake in 2019:

In the year ending in September 2018, Amazon did $220.957 billion in sales, a nearly 38-percent increase from the year before.

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Yearly intake in 2019:
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Jeff Bezos in 1999:

Known as the geeky founder and CEO of Amazon.com, Inc., here on the cover of the Dec. 20, 1999, issue of Time magazine as the magazine's "Person of the Year" for 1999. "There were two great themes of the year, online shopping and dot-com mania, and the minute we thought of Bezos it was obvious that he embodied both" the magazine wrote.

Jeff Bezos in 1999:
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Jeff Bezos in 2019:

Owner of much more than a bookseller, let alone just a bookseller. Bezos' public iteration has seen a number of public reinventions, including but not limited to "buff Bezos," "Washington Post-owner Bezos," "feuding with Trump Bezos," and now "divorcee Bezos."

Amazon warehouses in 2019:
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The offices in 1999:

Back in 1999, the offices were along Second Avenue, right across the street from the former-Nordstrom Rack. As the "60 Minutes" crew walks past the "pawn shop and the porno parlor, the wig store and the down market teriyaki joint, we didn't see anything that seemed vaguely cutting edge." Later in the year, they would move into Seattle's famous hilltop orange tower, Pacific Medical Center.

"So big it makes Amazon look tiny," was the party line for Barnes and Noble in the war against Amazon, bragging about the bigger selection they had. Around this time Amazon would get into a legal battle with BN over their "One-click purchase" button on their homepage.

Among the "Major 1999 initiatives" quoted in their end of year report, Amazon boasted about branching out from books to new categories: "Auctions, zShops, Toys, Consumer Electronics, Home Improvement, Software, Video Games, Payments and our wireless initiative, Amazon Anywhere."

According to the "60 Minutes" profile, in January 1999, Amazon was worth 20 percent more than Sears. "A couple of geeks, who sketched out some software, could destroy Sears Roebuck?" host Bob Young asks, laughing.